Lack of ambulances affecting health care in U/W Region

A retired Assistant Chief Technical Officer of the Disease Control Department (Leprosy) at the Wa District Health Directorate in the Upper West Region, Mr Alphonsus Sofaa, has appealed to the government to provide the area with ambulances to facilitate health care in the region.

 He explained that in the rural communities, it was becoming increasingly difficult to transport sick people to health facilities because of bad roads, unreliable transport services and the unavailability of health facilities in those areas. 

Mr Sofaa said this after Lepers Aid Ghana had offered financial support to lepers in the Upper West Region.

The retired officer, who made the appeal in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Wa, explained that ambulances were  equipped to render emergency services to victims of road traffic and domestic accidents, maternal services and during severe medical conditions. 

He expressed concern over the fact that as a result of the frequent breakdown of the few ambulances in the region, healthcare providers were handicapped in the treatment of such victims.